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Ryu (JKD?) · 04-16-2002, 08:46 PM

Looking for some good opinions here.
It seems after the success of a lot of NHB tournaments, you hear a lot of people saying "The ground is the LAST place you want to be in a real fight!"
Now, granted the ground is probably one of the most dangerous places to be, but do you think the majority of people who yell this out all the time are people who really don't know how to fight on the ground? Hence it is the last place they want to be?
It is obvious that multiple opponents and weapons happen in the street, but it is also just as common for there to be only one on one fights and have people crowd around, etc. In fact most of the fights I've seen and been in have really only been one on one. Ocassionally there has been two on one, or three on one, but there have been a good number that stayed one on one as well.
Cross training is obviously the key. It's good to have some good hands, good takedown defenses, and good ability to get the top position in a ground fight.
But......do you think fighting from the ground in a streetfight is always so terrible? Or do you think the statement "the ground is the last place you want to fight on the street!" is becoming a fallacy?

Ryu

04-16-2002, 08:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ryu (JKD?) Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 623 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	"the ground is the last place you want to be in a real fight!" Looking for some good opinions here. It seems after the success of a lot of NHB tournaments, you hear a lot of people saying "The ground is the LAST place you want to be in a real fight!" Now, granted the ground is probably one of the most dangerous places to be, but do you think the majority of people who yell this out all the time are people who really don't know how to fight on the ground? Hence it is the last place they want to be? It is obvious that multiple opponents and weapons happen in the street, but it is also just as common for there to be only one on one fights and have people crowd around, etc. In fact most of the fights I've seen and been in have really only been one on one. Ocassionally there has been two on one, or three on one, but there have been a good number that stayed one on one as well. Cross training is obviously the key. It's good to have some good hands, good takedown defenses, and good ability to get the top position in a ground fight. But......do you think fighting from the ground in a streetfight is always so terrible? Or do you think the statement "the ground is the last place you want to fight on the street!" is becoming a fallacy? Ryu __________________ Sekkendo...